With such a close monitoring system in place, it is difficult to
understand how such egregious violations could have still been
happening. However, it seems as though Jin Shun was very strategic in
concealing these. The company provided workers with mock question and
answer sheets to memorize in case they were ever questioned about
conditions in the factory. They also provided falsified time records to
labor investigators – which, if correct, would show that workers
produced an entire piece of clothing in less than one minute. It is
amazing how long this system worked without being discovered and that
workers were being trained to cover up for their disgustingly inhumane
employers.

First, Emira Woods from Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and I delivered a letter to Marina Marich at Public Strategies (she handles their work with Firestone).  The letter asked Ms.

But the real twist came when footage
taken by a cameraman at the rescue showed one of the men from the Colombian
intelligence team wearing a bib bearing the logo of the American Red
Cross. Though Colombian President Alvaro
Uribe claims that the man acted alone and decided to put the shirt on because
he was “nervous,” many pundits find it hard to believe that this wasn’t part of
the plan all along. And if it was, it seems even more questionable that Uribe,
who in the past has accused human rights groups of being little more than
fronts for leftist groups in the country, would exploit the very connection he
had spent so much time attacking.

These questions, and many others, came to mind when meeting with local
unions in New Jersey this past week. The purpose of meeting with local
New Jersey unions was to talk about a campaign, and identify places of
potential collaboration in our work and their work. However, on a more
philosophical level, we were working on talking to these unions about
the importance of supporting international labor rights issues – issues
that might not be in the immediate self-interest of local unions.